Sen. Claire McCaskill footed the $8,200 bill for Senator Chuck Schumer and his wife to join her family vacation, reports the USA Today.

In total, the paper reports, citing financial disclosure forms, that Sen. McCaskill shelled out a total of $15,000 for Schumer and Sen. Jon Tester of Montana to tag along with her family during the four-day Cancun retreat.

McCaskill covered the costs for the flight, hotel and food during the trip last February.

The USA Today adds that McCaskill is one of the wealthiest members of Congress — mostly as a result of her husband’s real-estate holdings.

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Rusty Weiss is a freelance journalist focusing on the conservative movement and its political agenda. He has been writing conservatively charged articles for several years in the upstate New York area, and his writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, American Thinker, FoxNews.com, Big Government, the Times Union, and the Troy Record. He is also Editor of one of the top conservative blogs of 2012, the Mental Recession.